Impact Assessment and Economic Benefits of Weather and Marine Services

Impact Assessment and Economic Benefits of Weather and Marine Services

Laxmi Joshi R Venkatesan
September 2010

The study aims to estimate the economic and social benefits of the services provided by the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) as well as benefits realised by beneficiaries and their perception about the reliability and utility of such services. The services chosen for this study were agro-meteorological advisory, fishery, tsunami warning, severe weather warning and public weather forecasting.

Computable General Equilibrium Modelling and Policy Analysis